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In October the Democratic Alliance (DA) laid charges against the Free State ANC Youth League Chairperson, Thabo Meeko, for hate speech and intimidation with the Equality Court. We have now been informed by the Magistrate's office that a decision on the matter will be available tomorrow.

In October, Meeko was quoted in the press as saying that University of the Free State Vice Chancellor Professor Jonathan Jansen should be "shot and killed because he is a racist", and that "like President Jacob Zuma when he said the police must meet fire with fire, the shoot-to-kill approach must also apply to all the racists, including Jansen - because he is a racist. He must know that we have removed more powerful people than him before. Jansen is equally a criminal like those four racists."

Mr Meeko responded with an opposing affidavit early in November and at the end of that month, the matter was transferred to the Bloemfontein Equality Court. The matter was delayed as the first Magistrate referred the matter to a second magistrate for fear of a conflict of interest. The Magistrate in question had been involved in the Reitz Four/ Jansen case. The matter is now before the appropriate Magistrate and the DA has been assured that a decision on the matter will be made available tomorrow.

On Friday last week the DA laid similar charges against Mpumalanga provincial ANC Youth League secretary Isaac Mahlangu after he threatened journalists and whistleblowers at the City Press newspaper with physical harm for reporting on alleged corruption and irregularities involving ANCYL deputy secretary general Steven Ngubeni.